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The Office of the Bar Confidant releases an official Bar Topnotchers list together with the list of names of all successful bar examinees. The Bar Topnotchers list contains the names of the candidates who garnered the highest general averages in the bar exam for that year. The highest ranking candidate in the list is known as the bar topnotcher ...
The Office of the Bar Confidant of the Philippine Supreme Court releases the Official List of Successful Bar Examinees, usually during the last week of March or the first week of April of every year. Candidates whose names appear in the list are required to take and subscribe before the Supreme Court the corresponding Oath of Office.
Through the years, Aquila Legis has produced over 40 lawyers who reached the top ten of the Philippine Bar Examinations, four (now five) [14] of whom placed first. [15] [16] A number of alumnus bar topnotchers have gone on to distinguished public careers in government.
Bar key: Mckinley appointee T. Roosevelt appointee Taft appointee Wilson appointee Harding appointee Coolidge appointee Hoover appointee F. Roosevelt appointee Quezon appointee Under Chief Justice José Abad Santos (1941–1942)
The Philippine Bar Examination is administered once every year on the four Sundays of November (September before 2011). [24] It covers eight areas of law: political law, labor law and social legislation, criminal law, civil law, commercial law, taxation law, remedial law, and legal ethics and practical exercises.
In the Philippines, it is the Supreme Court that exclusively administers the Bar Examinations and every year, a Supreme Court Justice becomes the Bar Chairperson. Leonen was supposed to be the chairperson exclusively for the 2020 Bar Exams (which was postponed), but the scope of his watch got extended to the 2021 batch because of the challenges ...
The law confirmed the constitutional power of the Philippine Supreme Court to adopt rules for the integration of the Philippine Bar. Consequently, Presidential Decree 189 constituted the IBP into a corporate body in 1973. On January 9, 1973, the Supreme Court ordained the integration of the Philippine Bar. [1]
The 2001 bar exam had the highest number of passers -- 1,266 out of 3,849 examinees, or 32.89%, while 2006 had the highest examinees -.6,187. Also, the 2003 bar exam was marred by controversy when the Court ordered a retake of the Mercantile law due to questionnaire leakage.Inquirer.net, First bar exam in RP held in 1901, with 13 test takers